George Karr
Engineering Manager at Fleet Device Management
Cedar Park, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge Karr is an engineering manager with nine years of hands-on experience building and operating distributed microservice platforms and embedded systems, now leading engineering at Fleet Device Management from Cedar Park, TX. He blends low-level C/C++ firmware and driver experience with backend Python and Go work running 13+ microservices across global data centers, CI/CD, and SOC Type 2–compliant deployments. A pragmatic team leader, he has managed and grown teams of six engineers, introduced Agile and automated testing practices, and improved observability and scaling using Prometheus and Grafana. Notable strengths include designing efficient embedded DSP workflows and creating tooling—CLIs and dynamic test environments—to make complex cloud stacks testable with limited resources. He’s motivated by full lifecycle ownership, continuous improvement, and a personal curiosity for gadgets and practical automation.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
Spanish, English
Github Skills (85)
vulnerability-management10
osquery10
infrastructure10
puppet10
cybersecurity10
rabbitmq10
downtime10
developer-tools10
queue10
device-management10
endpoint-security10
fleet10
mdm10
gitops10
cloud-security10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
georgekarrv/machinery
Apr 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
machineryasynchronousasynchronous-taskjob-queuetask-queue
fleetdm/fleet
Apr 2023 - Apr 2025
Open-source platform for IT, security, and infrastructure teams. (Linux, macOS, Chrome, Windows, cloud, data center)
Contributions:2 releases, 583 reviews, 232 PRs in 2 years
operating-systemsriskcloud-securitytelemetryworkstations
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